Liam's Name

Before we were even pregnant Dereck and I had always said that I would get to name the first girl and he the first boy. I had always wanted to name a girl Rachel, no major reason for that name except I would occasionally use it as my alias and just thought it was a pretty name. Dereck had always wanted William, it was both his middle name and his grandfathers name. I wasn't too sure of William at first because it was such a popular name, and had friends who had named there boys William already, but also understood it was a family name. I did love the name Liam though, so Dereck and I were able to come to an agreement that if we had a boy his official name was going to be William, but we would call him Liam. Looking through baby books at names we had also learned that William meant Protector and new that we wanted a strong name for our baby and that was perfect for him. The middle name was a little harder to come up with. Dereck had always joked that he wanted our baby to have the initials WAR. Well then I said that maybe we should have his middle name be Archimedes which Dereck thought would be perfect. He figured that with a middle name like that his son would want to learn so much about where that name came from. We had left the name issue alone for a few months till about the time were going in to find out the sex of our baby. Dereck's grandma is named Maxine, and she means the world to us, and her dad was named Maximilian. Maximilian also means the Greatest, so right away we new that we had Liam a middle name. His name had so much meaning to us and even more so now because it means the The Greatest Protector. What a perfect name for our precious little Angel and so happy we already had his name picked out before he was born.

We have also since talked about baby names for when we have another child, not sure if we will ever come up with a name that has as much of a special meaning as Liam does. I now know that Rachel will never work as a girls name for me, but we have thought about a few names that we both can agree on, but you will all have to wait and find out on knowing those.

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Liam in Denali National Park

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Liam on a beach in Hawaii

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2 comments:

As you know my son shares the same name. We chose Liam while we were on vacation in Mexico when I was 15 weeks along. We didn't know the meaning, we both just loved the name Liam if baby was a boy. While I was in the hospital and we knew that Liam was indeed a Liam, my husband looked up the meaning on his iPhone. "Strong will, desire and protector". It was the perfect name for our brave little Liam.

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My husband and I got married on 10/18/2008. After trying for about 2 years we were finally pregnant with a baby boy. At 20 weeks gestation he was diagnosed with a severe case of Spina Bifida, Unfortunately after having fetal surgery on 1/03/11, at 26 weeks gestation, our son Liam passed away.
Then, my beloved rainbow baby Evelynn was born on 4/22/2012 at 36 weeks and 2 days, just 6 days before my scheduled c-section date. My uterus had ruptured leaving her brain dead. She died a day and a half later. I am forever heartbroken to have lost not one, but now two, of my beautiful babies.
Luckily, we were able to find an amazing gestational carrier to help us bring home a healthy baby. Our son Maximilian was born on 9/26/2013. We can't thank Jessica enough for doing this for us.
Then, after learning I have diminished ovarian reserve and learning that using another carrier with my eggs is not a favorable option, we decided to adopt and signed on with an adoption agency at the beginning of 2015. Our birthmom picked our profile a few months later and on August 3, 2015 Ruby Evelynn was born.